Leon Broughton, 29, denied giving Louella Fletcher-Michie drugs after she died of an overdose at the Bestival Music Festival in 2017.

When quizzed by police about her death, he not only denied giving the 24-year-old drugs but allegedly lied that he had not taken any himself.

Yet detectives later found the same party drug that killed Louella in blood samples taken from Broughton, the court heard.

The grime star, who split up with Louella earlier that year but were still friends, then blamed the death on the tragic girl’s parents.

He claimed that, with a medical tent just 400 metres away, he would have carried Louella after she “spiralled” out of control after taking “LSD” – which detectives later found to be lethal party drug 2C-P.

But he claimed her 68-year-old mum, Carol, and Holby City’s John, 62, instead told him on the phone to get help from someone in a “high-vis” jacket.

TRAGIC: Louella Michie died of a drug overdose at the Bestival festival in 2017 (Pic: SOLENT/LOUELLA MICHIE)

LETHAL: Louella had taken party drug 2C-P before 'tripping' out of control (Pic: LOUELLA MICHIE)

TRIBUTE: Louella's Holby City star dad wore a t-shirt with his daughter's face on it (Pic: SOLENT)

Jurors heard at Winchester Crown Court yesterday that Leon was serving a suspended sentence at the time of Louella’s death, which prosecutors allege is why he did not seek help for his dying girlfriend.

During his first police interview, Broughton said he did not know how his ex-girlfriend had got party drug 2C-P, which he suggested was LSD.

Coronation Street and Taggart star Mr Michie watched with his family from the public gallery as the court heard details of Broughton's police interview.

In the interview, carried out at Poole police station the day after Louella died - on what should have been her 25th birthday, Broughton claimed she had bought the drugs herself and he had not been there.

He told officers: "I think she bought something, she bought LSD or something.

"We was just having fun and just chilling in the woods. She was tripping and then she said she had acid. She was fine at first, then it kind of spiralled.

"At the end, he was asked if he wanted to add anything else. Broughton said, 'I am very distressed about this. I am in pieces man. She's not coming back'."

In a second interview, later the same day, he told officers again he had not taken drugs at the Lulworth Castle site, Dorset, just drinking two cans of cider and two of lager.

Mr Jones said: "He said he did not have a clear memory of the timings, but he was thinking clearly and trying to act rationally. He was asked if he was not telling the officers something, he said 'something I am not telling you? No there's nothing'.

"The officers suggested he had not ensured Louella got the medical attention she needed. He said, 'yeah man, I did. Oh man, I was trying to give her good medical care'.

"He confirmed he did not dial 999. He said that was because people said they were sending help.

"The officers suggested he might have been tripping himself.

EXES: Louella and Leon had split up previously and remained friends (Pic: INSTAGRAM/LOUELLA_EVE)

"He said, 'I was in a good position to take care of her. I acted rationally. You're talking like I want her to be dead'.

"The officers confirmed no one was suggesting that, but they indicated he was not giving her the best care because he had taken drugs. He said, 'I was caring for her. I was, I was, I was caring for her'."

The junior prosecutor added Broughton had claimed to officers that when he told friends at the festival he had drugs with him he was simply joking, adding they would often joke about things like that.

But during the trial, jurors heard blood samples taken from Broughton revealed he had MDMA, ketamine, diazepam and alprazolam in his system, as well as 2C-P.

The court also heard former Coronation Street star Mr Michie and his wife, a dancer with Hot Gossip, made a desperate 130-mile dash from north London to Bestival after hearing a hallucinating Louella screech down the phone “like a wild animal”.

Broughton, who has recorded with top rap artists Skepta and Wiley, filmed his girlfriend “tripping” on 2C-P, continuing to do so as her condition worsened and even allegedly after she died.

YOUNG WOMAN: Louella died aged just 24 (Pic: INSTAGRAM/LOUELLA_EVE)

TV STAR: Louella's dad is famed for being in Holby City and Coronation Street (Pic: EMPICS ENTERTAINMENT)

The on-site hospital was a mere 400 metres away from the woodland they were in, yet the court heard Broughton did not seek help in the six hours he spent with Louella there.

Jurors were also shown shocking footage of Louella hallucinating wildly ad repeatedly shouting “mum”, as well as “dad, I love you”, before slapping herself on the legs.

An audio clip revealed Broughton laughed at his girlfriend before she appeared to start eating thorns.

Grisly “live” iPhone images, taken by Broughton at 11.25pm on September 10 2017, show a lifeless Louella laying on her back with bloodied hands.

It has been heard Louella is the first person to have died in the world from a 2C-P overdose, which Broughton is alleged to have “bumped up”.